Which of the following is the main difference between NAS and DAS?

A. NAS cannot be shared amongst multiple computers

B. DAS can offer a fault tolerant design

C. DAS does not use network devices.

D. NAS uses an HBA. DAS does not use an HBA

Which of the following administration tools would be the BEST choice for scripting commands?

A. Telnet

B. CLI

C. GUI

D. HTTP

Which of the following provides the BEST level of security for data traveling across a WAN?

A. Data destruction

B. Key Management

C. Authentication

D. Encryption

Off-site backups are MOST likely to help provide which of the following?

A. Business continuity

B. High availability

C. Scalability

D. Serviceability

Which of the following describes a RAID level 5 implementation?

A. Used in data intensive or single-user environments which accesses long sequential records to speed up data transfer

B. Uses mirroring where the data on one drive is duplicated on another

C. Provides no data redundancy, but has the largest storage capacity

D. Offers data protection and increased throughput by striping data and parity across all drives

Which of the following is true for load balancing?

A. Load balancing cannot be provided without an effective RAID configuration.

B. A dual-port HBA will always provide load balancing.

C. A dual-port HBA to an array capable of active/active sessions.

D. I/O sent from a host through two ports to an array will provide load balancing.

A previously fully redundant drive enclosure is now showing only a single path on an array. The I/O modules and enclosure connecting cables have all been replaced with known good parts. Which of the following components has failed?

A. Enclosure controller

B. Enclosure address

C. Faulty drive

D. Power supply

Which of the following is MOST likely required to have true site redundancy?

A. DR site in another region on a separate power grid

B. DR site utilizing only HA storage arrays

C. DR site in the same city

D. DR site utilizing storage arrays with SSD drives

A biometric device is BEST used for which of the following purposes?

A. Disk compression

B. LUN masking

C. Physical access

D. File permissions

A client has requested a new 4TB storage system. They need redundancy built in as well as some scalability. This should be attached to the current network, consisting of SAS and SCSI based servers, on a copper gigabit network. Low price is crucial. Which of the following would be the BEST solution?

A. A Fiber Channel SAN containing five 1TB FC drives in a RAID 5 configuration, with five empty slots for expansion.

B. Four independent 1TB NAS devices.

C. An iSCSI SAN containing five 1TB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration, with five empty slots for expansion.

D. Attaching a DAS to one of the existing servers, containing nine 300GB SAS drives in a RAID 5 configuration, with a hot spare drive.